Tat Black Tubo Color Consistency

[mthhurley]

I was playing humidor Tetris today, cleaning, reorganizing..etc.

I bought a box of Blacks at their release, I gifted one at some point and still have not smoked one myself.

With some advice from others, I decided to untube the Blacks and Reds...I pulled two and put them in my main humi and didn't pay attention at first as I filled out the tray...Then I made a double take and saw this:

So then I untubed the rest of the box, put those two above into the box and shot these.

I know there's color variation and it's natural product and perfection is impossible but has anyone seen this much (much more on the left side of the box)?

 

[whodeeni]

Well bro... not really sure, but maybe pete can chime in on this one!

 

[njstone]

I have noticed a lot of wrapper variation among cigars in general. Check out this pic of some of my Noellas:

2 Reservas, 2 regular Noellas, I put them in order of decreasing wrapper color (L-R):

 

[Craig Mac]

Nate you sure one of those Noellas isn't an OR Reserva?

 

[njstone]

Nate you sure one of those Noellas isn't an OR Reserva?

That really dark Noella is a regular release (as far as I know). I bought a full box, and they were all really dark like that.

 

[jwyatt55]

Dear Nate,

please send me some dark noellas.

Nate think you have a box of original noella reserva buddy

 

[okia42]

I would think that when they put them in tubes for some reason they dont keep the batch together. I have seen often same cigars from different box's have different color wrappers.

 

[njstone]

Dear Nate,

please send me some dark noellas.

Nate think you have a box of original noella reserva buddy

I wish! The box date is July '09 ... so probably not. I did wonder if they might have had some leftover Reserva wrappers, though, and just put them on the regular Noella w/out the Reserva bands. There is no "Reserva" sticker or anything else unusual about the box or cigars--just that the wrappers are unusually dark (even darker than some of my Reservas, as the picture shows!). Or maybe Pepin is just dying his sticks now:rolling:

 

[whodeeni]

Ur Crazy Nate!

I wish! The box date is July '09 ... so probably not. I did wonder if they might have had some leftover Reserva wrappers, though, and just put them on the regular Noella w/out the Reserva bands. There is no "Reserva" sticker or anything else unusual about the box or cigars--just that the wrappers are unusually dark (even darker than some of my Reservas, as the picture shows!). Or maybe Pepin is just dying his sticks now:rolling:

 

[Le Buzz]

I wish! The box date is July '09 ... so probably not. I did wonder if they might have had some leftover Reserva wrappers, though, and just put them on the regular Noella w/out the Reserva bands. There is no "Reserva" sticker or anything else unusual about the box or cigars--just that the wrappers are unusually dark (even darker than some of my Reservas, as the picture shows!). Or maybe Pepin is just dying his sticks now:rolling:

how dare you compare Don Pepin with Rocky Patel!! :hysterica

 

[caseabb]

All cigars will have some wrapper variations. That is why they sort them at the factory and then box like shaded wrappers together. This is very common.

 

[TheCigarKid]

how dare you compare Don Pepin with Rocky Patel!! :hysterica

Don't forget CAO, Alex Bradley, La Gloria Cubana, Carlos Torano, Xikar, etc.. Sadly, not only Rocky Patel are practicing these, IMO, false marketing tactics. I'm not a FAN at all.

Pepin has enough awesome tobacco to not have to do that BS, lol.

 

[njstone]

Don't forget CAO, Alex Bradley, La Gloria Cubana, Carlos Torano, Xikar, etc.. Sadly, not only Rocky Patel are practicing these, IMO, false marketing tactics. I'm not a FAN at all.

Pepin has enough awesome tobacco to not have to do that BS, lol.

And Padron, don't forget the #1 cigar of '07 the DYED Padron 80th!

 

[TheCigarKid]

And Padron, don't forget the #1 cigar of '07 the DYED Padron 80th!

Anyone have proof on this one? I have a single maduro and did the water test and got no dye from the wrapper. Are the OR's dyed than?

 

[tmoney2007]

I imagine that the cigars being in tubes, and using a binder leaf for the wrapper could lead to more than average wrapper color variations...

 

[Treinenwj]

I think they probably weren't as worried about matching colors because they were being packed into tubes. I always figured the shade-matching was for the presentation more than anything else

 

[njstone]

I imagine that the cigars being in tubes, and using a binder leaf for the wrapper could lead to more than average wrapper color variations...

That's what I was thinking about the Black Tubos as well ... maybe that's one of the reasons why it's considered binder-quality? That and the fact that instead of a beautiful woman it looks like Leatherface. Speaking of which ... maybe Pete will use this wrapper for the next Monster!

 

[Jfire]

Originally Tubos in CC form were used to disguise lower quality and color wrappers in all marcas. At least thats what I read. Not saying thats what Pete is doing but if there in the Tube taken out 1 at a time color wont be a issue.

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

how dare you compare Don Pepin with Rocky Patel!! :hysterica

Now don't forget the La Gloria Cubana Serie R's too!

 

[Donnie]

With some advice from others, I decided to untube the Blacks and Reds...I pulled two and put them in my main humi and didn't pay attention at first as I filled out the tray...Then I made a double take and saw this:

what was this advice?? i have a box of red and black but i haven't opened either.